A1000 Terminal Program

[RepoOne]

I have an A1000 with only 512K of ChipRAM, and I'm wondering what a good terminal program for it would be.

I plan on doing this with it:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40122

However, many of the terminal programs seem to be for OS 2.0 or for Amigas with >512K of RAM. Are there any (preferably on AmiNet) that would work well with my setup?

[Tenacious]

NComm was my favorite, I used it for years before the internet.  According to the text on Aminet, it's possible to run the last version (3.06) on OS1.3 with only 512K, IF, run in 2 colors.  Another option would be to find older and smaller versions (older than version 3.0x) of NComm.  I switched to NComm because it correctly handled IBM ansi characters, IIRC.

Before NComm I used ACCESS!, I didn't see it on Aminet.

I also liked a program called VLT (I think).  It was written by a guy who worked at the Stanford accelerator (I think, , I also didn't see it on Aminet.  EDIT: this could be it http://aminet.net/comm/term/VLTj5867.lha

If you don't find something, I could look thru my floppy vault and see if one of these is still readable.

This brings up an interesting question:  What happened to all the old stuff from Fred Fish and Elysian that doesn't seem to be on Aminet?

[desiv]

I know I used JRComm a lot back in the day...
I'd give it a shot..  Although I can't remember off the top of my head how well it handled IBM ANSI....  Very nice ZModem support tho..

desiv

[mechy]

I have an A1000 with only 512K of ChipRAM, and I'm wondering what a good terminal program for it would be.

I plan on doing this with it:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40122

However, many of the terminal programs seem to be for OS 2.0 or for Amigas with >512K of RAM. Are there any (preferably on AmiNet) that would work well with my setup?

termite tcp was tiny and i think has a telnet client,check it out. I'm not sure if it runs under WB1.3 tho.
I managed to fit it on a 880K bootable floppy with telnet,email prog and grapevine long ago to get a Stock 1 meg ram A500 68000 machine on the net via dialup.

[prowler]

I know I used JRComm a lot back in the day...
I'd give it a shot..  Although I can't remember off the top of my head how well it handled IBM ANSI....  Very nice ZModem support tho..

desiv

Both NComm and JRComm should support IBM ANSI _if_ you have the IBM ANSI fonts on your system. Well, that's what my hazy memory tells me anyway. It has been some time since I used a terminal package.

Also, you can grab xpr modem libraries for the different transfer protocols out there as well as replacement serial.device which should allow for faster transfer rates on an Amiga compared with the system supplied one. Unfortunately, the standard UART Amigas used are not very fast which is why so many people used to get serial cards.

[hardlink]

I have an A1000 with only 512K of ChipRAM, and I'm wondering what a good terminal program for it would be.

The terminal program that I ran for years on my A1000, under WB 1.2, was A-Talk III, it had VT100, IBM, and Tektronix modes, but it was commercial. I just ran it (on an A4000T) and it uses about 200KB of ram; and still works under OS 3.9! Nice programming Marco Papa!

Edit: I just sent a request to who I think is the author asking permission to public release it, ala Ignacio; we'll see what happens.

EditII: Response-

   From:    Marco Papa
   Subject:    Re: Felsina Software
   Date:    December 21, 2010 11:49:13 AM EST

Yes, I am THE Marco Papa of Felsina Software. And sure you can go ahead and "publicly share" with my approval.

-- Marco
--
Marco Papa, Ph.D.
Computer Science Department
xxxxxxxxxx

Now what to do; can I upload this to Aminet?

[motrucker]

I believe Baud Bandit will do this too.

[Amiga_CDTV]

The terminal program that I ran for years on my A1000, under WB 1.2, was A-Talk III, it had VT100, IBM, and Tektronix modes, but it was commercial.....

This morning I was reading a random issue of Amiga World (Aug. 1989, p.33), and there was an ad of the A-Talk III. I started searching, as I have been looking for a terminal for A1000 to use with my Lantronix box.

I found the ADF image from the TOSEC archives, and soon I had it booted on my A1000 (the disk is a bootable WB1.2) and it works very nicely! It by default saves downloads to disk, and RAM disk is pretty useless here as very little RAM is left free when running.

Also thumbs up for hardlink for contacting the author, and two thumbs up for Marco Papa for his approval to share it

[Jeff]

Yes, I am THE Marco Papa of Felsina Software. And sure you can go ahead and "publicly share" with my approval.

-- Marco
--
Marco Papa, Ph.D.
Computer Science Department
xxxxxxxxxx

Now what to do; can I upload this to Aminet?

Sweet! Well my friend, clearly the first thing you should do is send a copy to me for my Classic Systems!

[kolla]

Sweet indeed, yes, put on aminet